Fertilizer blast unlikely in Fairfield County

Officials: There are no fertilizer plants in Fairfield County

1:09 AM,
Apr. 20, 2013

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While bodies are being recovered from the remnants of a Texas farm town rocked by an explosion at a fertilizer plant, local officials said the chances of a similar explosion occurring in Fairfield County are remote.

"We don't have any fertilizer-producing plants in the county," said Jon Kochis, Fairfield County emergency management director. "There isn't anything here that would produce that extent of an explosion."

The Wednesday evening explosion in West, Texas, was strong enough to register as a small earthquake and was heard from miles away. It demolished nearly everything located ...